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Earlier this year, the State of Michigan approved 2 Blogging courses for Real Estate Professionals. One of the courses, Blogging Basics for Real Estate Professionals, (K1062) could not have been more timely. My newsfeed just came across the most recent article from Inman News by Glen Roberts entitled 
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37 Comments on How To Avoid Costly Blogging Adventures...
We have no local course yet, however, I am on the education commitee of my board and will be bringing that up in this month's meeting. Thanks for sharing, Lola
Lola, is having your real estate information in the ABOUT ME tab,good enough ? I don't have it on the front page but it is there and obvious I am a REaltor.
Great advice Lola in our business we need to be aware of our obligations and take them seriously.
I don't know why anyone would think they wouldn't eventually get caught, if they're breaking the law or violating the Code. Actually, I don't know why they would want to. What real estate buyer or seller would want to do business with a dishonest agent, except a dishonest buyer or seller?
Lola, blogging is playing a larger role in the way business is done, so people better learn how to use it and do it correctly.
Lola, I may be all wet here but I also think many bloggers violate their MLS rules without really thinking about it. A blog is after all a website and at least for my MLS there are very specific rules regarding listings that are aquired by feeds or that are posted via services like Postlets. We really need to consider all the rules, not just those dealing with slander, etc. Thanks for a great post.
Lola~
I've bookmarked this and dropped BOB a note to let him know I think it should be Featured. Good points for all AR -folk to consider...and stated in your own savvy way =)
This is a hot topic lately. HUD is already reading blogs here and elsewhere.
I interviewed a HUD spokesman last fall and he confirmed their compliance staff members are spending an increasing amount of time on the Web.
Sally, you're right in noting that we should know what's right and wrong. But the issues at stake here are a little more complicated. Many agents don't have the training of professional journalist & yet we are making or interpreting what amounts to news. Unfortunately, many agents have not read and clearly understood their own code of ethics either. So, it's not just right and wrong, but also ignorance...
Yvette, we would all do well to follow this case and learn from the experience. As citizens, we do have the right to free speech, but we cannot defame, slander, misquote or in any other way portray things as other than what they are as real estate agents.
Cindy, as in most things in life...there are pros and cons.
Jeff, that's the challenge. The spectrum of what agents need to be aware of has broadend tremendously. During one of the discussions in the class, Gwyn Besner who has written several courses approved for Continuing Education in the State of Michigan remarked about the changes that she would consider making to a future course as a result of some of the issues that we brought up.
Kathleen, I think Michigan is the first state to offer this as Continuing Education, but I'm sure others will follow. It is really needed and relevant to the current business climate.
Gita, Thanks for your comment
Kris, Thanks for stopping by. Hopefully, we will be able to offer more of this COMBO in the future.
Mike...Great!
wow..i think it would be great if this type of class were available in pa....i dont think alot of us think about the laws when bloggin..good post and good eye opener
lola,
I didn't realize Michigan had a class on blogging. I'll have to look it up thanks for sharing
Lola- It's a good thing you share your expertise with the rest of us. I am sure I am in compliance....obviously I cannot guarantee it, but I think so :)
I had never really thought about blogging from this standpoint. Thanks so much for the education.
Lola........I have to say that I agree with you in the fact that we need to be carefull.
I don't believe that many of us have the idea yet of the far reaching power of these blogs, or of the permanance of them. I can't believe how many people have read my views from Active Rain, and how often I run into more of them in person.
A few years back, I finished a run of 7 years of doing a weekly radio show that reached a small local AM audience. To this day I get feedback from shows that I barely remember, but that made an impact on a person(s) that day. They still remember. Our blogging here has the power to go much further than that.
WIth any such power comes responcibility. Going to 5 blogging classes won't stop a lawsuit for someone who publically pushes an agenda on a blog such as this. Active Rain gets out to Potentially Millions in a Day. If the powers that be could do it, maybe when we sign our blogs to be submitted, there could be one more little box that we would check....
______I acknowlege that this statement that I have just writted will be viewed by potentially millions of people for the next 20 years....I am sure I feel good about putting this out into the very public domain.
Excellent information, and a prudent alert that we are always in business, and that "everything" is always "there", on the Internet. Thanks!
Li
Li Read, RE/MAX Salt Spring, B.C., Canada
liread33@gmail.com
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